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Todd Lipcon commented on HDFS-4758:
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Based on the discussion at the contributors meetup a few months back, didn't a 
lot of us anticipate the use case of a snapshottable /user, and then allowing 
each user or application to then make snapshots of their own /user/foo? Or a 
snapshottable root directory and then snapshottable subdirs?
                
> Disallow nested snapshottable directories
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-4758
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4758
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: namenode
>            Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
>            Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
>
> Nested snapshottable directories are supported by the current implementation. 
>  However, it seems that there are no good use cases for nested snapshottable 
> directories.  So we disable it for now until someone has a valid use case for 
> it.

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